Improvement in portable sprinklers



duits-d gitanas @tutti @plus Letters .Patent N'. 106,802, dated August 30,1870; aoitedated .August 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE SPRINKLERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent. and making part ot'` the same To all whom it may concern Be it known that L Xifaunnx L. Fisn, of Springield, in the count-y ot' Hampden and State ot' Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Sprinklers; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of' reference marked thereon, to 'ne a full, clear, and exact description thereof; and which said drawing constitutes part'of this specitication, and represents iu'f Figure 1, a side view of my sprinkling device, as attached to the vessel containing the water;

Figure 2 is a side view of the tube, having a perforated nozzle or cap, and showing the method ot' operating .the valve;

Figure 3 is 'a similar side view ofthe tube with t-hc valve-case, but with a conical or pointed nozzle;

Figure 4 is a vertical sec-tion' ot' the valve-case, through line F G of tig. 2; and

.Figure 5 is a plan view ot' the pertbrated nozzle or cap.

My invention relates to the sprinklers designed for use in watering lowcrs or plants, and

' It consists ot`a rigid tube, havinga flexible tube attached to one end, and at the other a cylindrical, or other conveniently shaped case, in which is a valve, operated by means of a wire or rod pressing against the valve from the outside, to open it, while it is closed by means cfa spiral spring placed upon the spindle or rod ot the valve inside the case; and the device is designed for and particularly adapted to the cultivation otthe tobacco plant, although it may with equal facility and advantage be used in the cultivation of vother plants, vegetables, or shrubs.

vTo enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed rto describe its construction and the mode ot' its operation.

1n the drawing- 4lf represents a vessel, which may he of any desired shape and size, having a short pipe at the lower end, communicating with the interior of the vessel. l

B represents a tube of the desired size and`length, to one end of which is attached thc valve-case D, which contains the valve, and this tube B is connected to the vessel E by means of the flexible tube C, one end'of which is attached to the short pipe at the lower end of the vessel E, while the other end is attached to the end o t thepipe B.

Fig. 4 shows in detail the construction of the valve and its case.

I) represents a cylindrical case, having a brace or stay, k, therein, extending from one side 'of' the case to the other, and this brace or stay k has a vertical hole made therein, through. or in which operates the valverod e, near the lower endlof' which is attached the disk f, which lits well upon the annular valve-seat-j. Upon the valve-rod e is placed a spiral spring h, the lupper end of which bears against the lower side ot' thc ,brace 1.', the lower end ot" said spring bearing against the valve-disk f.

To the lower end of the valve-case I) is attached a up, A, which has a snicient number of small holes therein, for the passage and distribution of the water. This perforated cap A has a central perforation, a, therein, through which passes the curved end of the rod a', the extreme end of which bears upward against 'l the end of the valve-rod e.

This curved rod a' operates in the guides 11 b', attached to the outside of the case D, and a small annular collar, or its equivalent, may, bc attached to the said rod a', just above the guide b,and a spiral spring, c, may be placed upon the rod al', above lthe said small collar, and the upper cud of the said spring bears upward against the upper guide b', the lower end bezn ing down against thc said annular collar.

lhc upper end ot' the rod a has a cord or wire, I, attached thereto, which extends along up the tube B, passing through small guides x, upon said tube B.

.Instead'ot using the perforated cap A, a conical cap, A', suitably perforated, may be used, into o1' through which may pass the curved end of the rod a.

A ring or hook, Z', maybe attached to the upper end of the cord or wire I.

Its operation is as follows:

*'lhc vessel E may be carried upon the shoulder or upon the back by means of straps passing through thc loops o upon the said vessel, or secured. 'in any other suitable manner, and is filled with water. The. tube B is carried in the handA by grasping the upper end near the ring` I',and in such manner that the ring l is seized by one ot' the fingers of the hand. The. lower end ofthe tube, having the cap A thereon,inay then be thrust at the root-s ot the plant, or any desired point where it is desired to deposit the water, and by pulling the ring l' and cord or-vvire l, the rod a is drawn upward, the extreme cud ot' the curved part ot' the rod forcing up the valve-rod e and disk f. As long as said valve-rod and dis-k remain elevated, the vater in the vessel is free to pass down out ot' the tube, and through the cap A or A.

\Vhen the wire or cordlis released,the spiral spring c upon the rod a forces said rod back to its original position, and the valve-rod and disk f being then tree to move back, they are forced down to their original posit-ion by the action of the spiral spring 71, and the. liow ot' water is then stopped.

lIn practice, it would, perhaps, not be necessary to have but one spiral spring, that is to say, the spring h about the valve-rod e might be sutiicient to force back botlrtlie valve f and the rod u.

Itisoften desirable to deposit 'the water from a prinkler, in small quantities and in particular spots, ind with as little waste as possible. Thisis especialy desirable in the cultivation ot tobacco, and of cabage plants, and, in fact, of a great variety of garden- Hants, where the leaves are so large that 'water caniet well he deposited at the roots bythe ordinary ',prinklers.

By my invention, however, the lower end of the tube nay be thrustbeneath or through the leaves, and di rectly to the root ot' the plant, and just the desired quantity of water may then be deposited, and with out any waste whatever.

rllhe pointed cap A is a very useful appendage in some cases, such, for instance, as in setting out-t0- bacco'and cabbage plants, when the earth is in a very dry state, making it necessary to water the young plants when they are set out. The pointed cap A is thrust in to the earth, to make the hole in whiclrto place the plant, and, at the same time the hole isv made, the valve is raised by a slight pull of the finger, and just the quantity ot' water is deposited in the hole to givethe earth the desired degree of dampuess around the roots of the young plant. As, ordinarily, the holes are made by 'one operation, and the water deposited by another, it is evident that my invention is a saving in time and labor.

lf muddy or dirty Water he used, the curve-d end of the rod a may be pulled ont of the cap A or A, and swung around to one side, and then. the cap be removed, and so using the device without any cap, as it is not always necessary that the water should be distributed through a pertbrated cap.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An improved watering device, consisting of the tube B, the valve j', with the spring h thereomand operated by lneans of the' rod a', all constructed and op erating substantially as described1 and connected with a suitable vessel for containing the water, by means of the flexible tube C.

lVARRE-N L. FISH. lVitnesses T.' A. CURTIS, C. E. BUOKLAND. 

